USC’s JuJu Watkins, UConn’s Paige Bueckers, Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo and UCLA’s Lauren Betts lead the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list announced Tuesday.

UConn (Bueckers, Sarah Strong), USC (Watkins, Kiki Iriafen), Notre Dame (Hidalgo, Olivia Miles), LSU (Flau’Jae Johnson, Aneesah Morrow) and TCU (Sedona Prince, Hailey Van Lith) are well represented with two players on the list. Defending champion South Carolina has one player: Te-Hina Paopao.

Other notable players include former Wooden Award All-American Georgia Amoore (Kentucky), Texas’ Madison Booker, Oklahoma’s Raegan Beers and Florida State’s Ta’Niya Latson, the nation’s leading scorer.

Strong is the only newcomer featured.

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark won the Wooden Award — given to the most outstanding player in college basketball — the last two seasons, and Bueckers won it as a freshman in 2021.

Players not selected for the midseason list are eligible to be included in the late-season edition as well as the national ballot, which includes 15 players. An All-American team is finally announced the week of the Elite Eight, and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player is named shortly thereafter.

The complete Wooden Award Midseason Top 25:

Georgia Amoore, Kentucky

Aziaha James, NC State

Flau’Jae Johnson, LSU

Cotie McMahon, Ohio State

Raegan Beers, Oklahoma

Lauren Betts, UCLA

Madison Booker, Texas

Paige Bueckers, UConn

Audi Crooks, Iowa State

Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga

Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame

Kiki Iriafen, USC

Ta’Niya Latson, Florida State

Ayoka Lee, Kansas State

Olivia Miles, Notre Dame

Aneesah Morrow, LSU

Lucy Olsen, Iowa

Te Hina Paopao, South Carolina

Khamil Pierre, Vanderbilt

Sedona Prince, TCU

JJ Quinerly, West Virginia

Sarah Strong, UConn

Harmony Turner, Harvard

Hailey Van Lith, TCU

JuJu Watkins, USC